Wide angle shot
10:01 AM on Sunday 10 August 2014
Did a wide angle shot of the owl on my desk. Close ups using a wide angle is rather interesting as it gives a very different perspective.
The afternoon at Changi Village
04:48 PM on Saturday 09 August 2014
We spend an afternoon at Changi Village, taking it easy. Everyone had fun at the small playground.
Find symbolic links
08:53 AM on Friday 08 August 2014
Prior to removing a directory, it might be interesting to see if there are any symbolic links within it. The following is a short piece of Python code to do this.
National Day Rehearsal
04:34 PM on Saturday 02 August 2014
Andy booked a room at the Ritz-Carlton Millenia to celebrate Pauline's birthday which was coming up. From the room we had a great view of the National Day Rehearsal. The distance and the lack of light made it very difficult to get really nice pictures. Esther did a good job with the fireworks.
Hanging tingkat
03:55 PM on Saturday 02 August 2014
Saw some red tingkats hung as decorative elements at the food court at Marina Square. Thought that it was really interesting looking so I took a photo and edited it a bit with snapseed to give it that antique look.
GTX570 for the Mac Pro
07:07 PM on Tuesday 29 July 2014
The Mac Pro 4,1 has been upgraded with a used GTX570 which I brought for $130. A nice little upgrade that hopefully will do something for Perfect Photo Suite 8 which was the main cause for this upgrade. Apparently Perfect Photo Suite 8 relies on OpenGL. The stock GT120 are getting really old so the ...
Genome size
02:07 PM on Tuesday 29 July 2014
For computation of genome coverage, a bed file containing the sizes of the chromosomes is very useful. This can be done easily on the command line as follows: Coverage of some features in another BED file can then be computed using bedtools as such: This will produce a output showing the coverage ...
Snow city
10:00 AM on Monday 28 July 2014
We finally took the time to go to Snow City which is really close to our house. Esther was really upset during Chinese New Year for not being able to go there but we have finally gone there.
Esther having ice cream
03:16 PM on Saturday 26 July 2014
We had ice cream at Swensen's at IMM. Took a couple of photos of Esther, the ever willing subject :-)